But one theatrical stalwart is showing serious signs of weakness: the superhero movie, which helped keep blockbusters afloat ...

A pig-squealing championship in France, the annual City2Surf fun run in Australia, a total solar eclipse over Spain, and much ...

Americans do not know enough about the Cold War, and much of what they think they know is wrong. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Republicans took a victory lap, rightly noting that the ...

The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

During its run in the 1980s, the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere engaged in plenty of creative experiments. But the 1988 ...

How to describe President Trump’s Freedom 250 Patriot Games? The contest, which took place earlier this week, brought students ages 14 to 17 together from across America to answer the question: What ...

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Donald Trump just won’t let go of his plans for the Kennedy Center. Less than three months after a federal judge ordered the president’s name stripped from the national arts center, Trump’s handpicked ...

The semiquincentennial events that President Trump has personally directed have been a celebration of his very particular version of America. The bloody UFC fight on the White House lawn was followed ...

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. Last Tuesday night, I was eating sushi with a Mexican police chief in downtown Culiacán, a city that had ...

Until very recently, airplanes were one of the last places where you couldn’t count on having good Wi-Fi. Even the Amazon’s most remote villages have high-speed internet, but for years, the typical in ...